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Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5

Fedora 44 images are now available for the Raspberry Pi 5, offering support for core features like accelerated graphics and networking, with further improvements planned.

So where has the last six months gone? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day!.

So compared to the last image what do we have now? Quite a lot more and I have more in the pipeline which should be in place in before freeze, plus a possible secret 😉, I just wanted to get something out sooner rather than later for people to play with. So the things that are working and tested are now:

All Raspberry Pi 5B: both revC and revD SoC 1/2/4/8/16GB variants
Serial console
The micro SD slot – the only supported OS disk ATM
HDMI including accelerated graphics
Wired ethernet port
Wireless network interface
USB ports (NOT for OS disks)
Desktops including images for KDE and GNOME
Some other random bits

Overall the devices are quire usable, but I will be working to improve it even more in the coming days.

The things that don’t work, but I’m hoping will be working RSN (pre 44) in no particular order:

Raspberry Pi 500 series
CM5 Series
NVME
Thermal
Audio
A bunch of other stuff
Automatic CMA additions

One thing you do need to currently do manually once you’ve created an image is to add the following to the kernel command line (use the –args option to arm-image-installer): cma=256M@0M-1024M

and without that accelerated graphics and some other things just won’t work, once you’re booted add it to /etc/kernel/cmdline

so new kernels will get it too. I’ll hopefully have that issue fixed shortly, I know the problem, just still haven’t got the best solution!

You’ll also want to disable auto-suspend on the Desktop images.

So where can I get these images? Right here:

The Fedora 44 Minimal Image

The Fedora 44 KDE Image

The Fedora 44 GNOME Workstation Image

Happy Pi Day everyone!

Source: Hacker News

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